MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal: Midsummer Night

 
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal: Midsummer Night
Kate Royal (soprano) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, Orchestra of English National Opera

[ EMI Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 4 May 2009

"…Kate Royal's lustrous soprano has invited comparisons with that of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and so it does in this imaginative programme, conducted by fellow wunderkind Edward Gardner." BBC Music

Tracks:

Alwyn: Miss Julie, Act 1 Scene 1: "Midsummer Night, O, night of magic" (Miss Julie)

Stravinsky: Le Rossignol, Act II: Chanson du rossignol. "Ah, joie, emplis mon coeur"

Walton: Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "At the haunted end of the day" (Cressida)

Floyd, C: Susannah, Act 2 Scene 3: "The trees on the mountains are cold" (Susannah)

Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203, Act 1: Song to the Moon, "Mesicku na nebi hlubokém" (Rusalka)

Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33, Act 3 Scene 1: "Is the boat in? … Embroidery in childhood was a luxury of idleness" (Balstrode, Ellen)

Lehár: Die lustige Witwe, Act 2: No. 7, Vilja-Lied, "Nun lasst uns … Vilja, o Vilja, Du Waldmägdelein" (Hanna, Chorus)

Barber: Vanessa, Op. 32, Act 1 Scene 1: "Do not utter a word" (Vanessa)

Britten: Paul Bunyan, Op. 17, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 15a, Song, "Ah! Whether the sun chine upon children playing" (Tiny, Chorus)

Messager: Monsieur Beaucaire, Act 2: No. 13, Chanson, "Philomel" (Lady Mary)

Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54, Act 1 Scene 4: "How beautiful it is" (Governess)

Herrmann, B: Wuthering Heights, Act 2: "I have dreamt in my life dreams" (Catherine)

Korngold: Glück, das mir verbleib 'Marietta's Lied' (from Die Tote Stadt)

Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns, Act 1 Scene 1: "Ich danke für die Huldigung … Flirten, bisschen flirten … Gern, gern wär ich verliebt" (Lisa, Chorus)